A new mission concept that would see a fleet of telescopes probing rocky planets in their stars' habitable zones should be ...

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their star early in their history Star Trek ...

Michael Orso/Getty Images, FILE The first planet was detected using a 27-foot diameter telescope at the European Space Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile and a spectrograph that could ...

Astronomers have announced that the James Webb Space Telescope has successfully captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide gas on a planet beyond our solar system. The findings are both a ...